Chef Review

Product Snapshot

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Technology

Platform is a SaaS solution and requires no additional hardware for installation.

Customer Focus

Vendor works with companies of all sizes and across multiple industries.

Select Customers

Gannet, Target, Standard Bank, Intuit, Nordstrom

About Chef

Chef is IT infrastructure monitoring and automation software that enables users to develop, test and deploy infrastructure automation code from local workstations. The platform is equipped with tools including Test Kitchen which allows companies to run tests in an isolated environment before implementation and InSpec, which assists users with writing language for infrastructure tests.

The software is equipped with a server that houses all company ‘cookbooks’, repositories for code and node management. Additionally, the platform facilitates cloud adoption by providing workload migration tools, is capable of managing multiple cloud environments and is designed to work with multiple cloud providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and On-Prem.

About the Company

Chef was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Washington.

Chef Key Features

Designed to manage Windows, Linux, AIX and Solaris systems

Automates load balancing and failover for stateful components

Searchable data storage

Run-list and policy management tools

Standard, Premium and Customer Success support subscriptions available